Joliet Correctional Center

Today I drove from Chicago to St. Louis.? The weather was very poor with rain, snow, sleet and hail being the four types of precipitation that I saw along the way.? The temp never got higher that 4C the whole trip.? In looking on the Internet I see that the weather has been much better back up in Winnipeg than it has been down here in the Midwest.? However, tomorrow it will likely start to get nicer down here.

One of the places I visited today was the Joliet Correctional Center.?? In fact it was just a few miles off the freeway from Chicago to St. Louis.

This prison has been closed since 2002, however most recently it has been used for the first season of the TV show “Prison Break”.? My remembrance of this location is?a scene from the movie “The Blues Brothers” where?”Joliet Jake” is freed from this very prison.

Today, it was quiet at the prison.? There were no tours offered.? However there is a road that goes right past the prison and?there is a place?where?you can pull over and take a few photos.